Mothers and Daughters Connection,

Using women's writing, film, feminist theory, and personal experience, contributors to Mothers and Daughters explore how the mother/daughter relationship is represented and experienced as a site of empowerment. This volume will offer readers an important and welcome chapter in the story of the complex relationship that is a part of nearly every woman's life.

Andrea O'Reilly is assistant professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University. Sharon Abbey is assistant professor of education at Brock University.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(20)

Andrea O'Reilly

Sharon Abbey

Part I: Mothers Telling Their Stories

Mothers at Work: Representations of Maternal Practice in Literature

21

(16)

Elizabeth Bourque Johnson

Restorying Jewish Mothers

37

(10)

Janet Burstein

Never One without the Other: Empowering Readings of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Contemporary Spain

47

(14)

Maria-Jose Gamez-Fuentes

Journeying Back to Mother: Pilgrimages of Maternal Redemption in the Fiction of Michele Roberts

61

(16)

Cath Stowers

Part II: Dismantling Patriarchal Motherhood

Bitches with Broomsticks: The Bad Mother in American Maternity Poetry

77

(14)

Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb

Rewriting ``Cinderella'': Envisioning the Empowering Mother-Daughter Romance

91

(12)

Jeanne Wiley

Heterosexual and Lesbian Mothers Challenging ``Feminine'' and ``Masculine'' Concepts of Mothering

103

(18)

Andrea Doucet

Gillian Dunne

The Mammy and the Mummy: Cultural Imaginary and Interracial Coalition

121

(22)

Ivy Schweitzer

Part III: Empowering Daughters

``I come from a long line of Uppity Irate Black Women'': African-American Feminist Thought on Motherhood, the Motherline, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship

143

(18)

Andrea O'Reilly

Mothers as Moral Educators: Teaching Language and Nurturing Souls

161

(14)

Deborah Orr

The Global Self-Esteem of an African-American Adolescent Female and Her Relationship with Her Mother

175

(14)

Barbara Turnage

Educated Mothers as a Tool for Change: Possibilities and Constraints

189

(14)

Sue Marie Wright

Telling Our Stories: Feminist Mothers and Daughters

203

(10)

Christina Baker

Biting the Hand That Feeds You: Feminism as the ``Bad Mother''

213

(14)

Astrid Henry

Part IV: Connecting/Disrupting the Motherline

Mother of Mothers, Daughter of Daughters: Reflections on the Motherline

227

(10)

Naomi Lowinsky

Don't Blame Mother: Then and Now

237

(10)

Paula Caplan

Motherline Connections across Cultures and Generations

247

(20)

Sharon Abbey

Charlotte Harris

Constantly Negotiating: Between My Mother and My Daughter

267

(10)

Joonok Huh

Revisioning the Maternal Body: Loving in Difference in Ngozi Onwurah's Film The Body Beautiful

277

(12)

Andrea Liss

Index

289

(8)

About the Contributors

297

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Mothers and Daughters Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation

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